/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. New research published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection experiments could function as highly precise gravitational wave detectors, thereby establishing an entirely new frequency band for observing these cosmic ripples. /news/2025-06-powerful-magnets-high-frequency-gravitational.html Astronomy Sat, 28 Jun 2025 07:30:01 EDT news670238008 In a new study, researchers demonstrate long-term, non-invasive monitoring of blood sodium levels using a system that combines optoacoustic detection with terahertz spectroscopy. The paper is published in the journal Optica. /news/2025-06-terahertz-blood-sodium-needles.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:05 EDT news670137645 Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement. The breakthrough, published in close collaboration with Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, could revolutionize our ability to control light-matter interactions. /news/2025-06-scientists-technique-capturing-ultra-intense.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:00:02 EDT news670068479 Quantum computers can solve extraordinarily complex problems, unlocking new possibilities in fields such as drug development, encryption, AI, and logistics. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a highly efficient amplifier that activates only when reading information from qubits. The study was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. /news/2025-06-smart-amplifier-power-consumption-paving.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:03 EDT news670071601 Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per second while beaming radio waves across the universe. These are pulsars, the collapsed cores of massive stars. Some pulsars are breaking the rules of physics as we understand them, and the answer might lie in something as simple as tiny mountains on their surfaces. /news/2025-06-pulsars-tiny-mountains.html Astronomy Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:22:04 EDT news670004522 A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to evaporate. The key factor turns out to be the oscillating electric field inherent to sunlight itself. /news/2025-06-oscillating-electric-field-sun-good.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:41:03 EDT news669987662 Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), which utilize ferroelectric ceramics, are widely used as electronic components in various devices such as smartphones, personal computers, televisions, and automotive systems. /news/2025-06-reveals-nanoscale-ferroelectric-interfaces.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:12:03 EDT news669982322 While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails to explain dark matter, dark energy and the apparent asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe. Over the past decades, physicists have thus introduced various frameworks and methods to study physics beyond the SM, one of which is known as the King plot. /news/2025-06-tightens-king-plot-based-constraints.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:40:35 EDT news669894028 A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared sensing. /news/2025-06-rewriting-century-physics-law-thermal.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Optics & Photonics Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:03:04 EDT news669636181 A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. /news/2025-06-electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:19:04 EDT news669485941 I became acquainted with sharks at a very early age. /news/2025-06-fascination-decoding-depths-distances-world.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:05:05 EDT news669463502 Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with matter, giving rise to new, potentially useful properties. /news/2025-06-scientists-harness-vacuum-fluctuations-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:58:05 EDT news669459482 An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and how their mass changes over time. The discovery joins many pieces of a puzzle that may reveal which kinds of planets form—rocky Earth-types, gas giants like Jupiter, or balls of ice in the Neptune mold—as star systems mature. /news/2025-06-gases-young-stars-astronomers-major.html Astronomy Planetary Sciences Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:49:17 EDT news669293350 Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies due to their fascinating underlying physics and their possible cosmological outcomes. Most previous studies aimed at simulating and better understanding these events relied on computational methods designed to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity under extreme conditions, such as those that would be present during neutron star mergers. /news/2025-06-simulation-reveals-emergence-jet-binary.html Astronomy Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:15:19 EDT news669287714 A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering transdisciplinary collaborations that bridge physics, chemistry, and biology to tackle fundamental questions. /news/2025-06-quantum-spirals-programmable-platform-ways.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:00:03 EDT news668940541 Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with powerful new instruments sensitive to gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation will lead to scientific breakthroughs in fundamental physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, a new study reveals. /news/2025-06-mysteries-universe-multi-messenger-gravitational.html Astronomy Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:35:04 EDT news668957702 Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope will be the "discovery of the century" isn't an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist Zoltan Fodor and his international research group did five years ago with their extensive calculation of the strength of the magnetic field around the muon—a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron. At the time, their finding was the first to close the gap between theory and experimental measurements, bringing it in line with the Standard Model, the well-tested physics theory that has guided particle physics for decades. /news/2025-06-qa-physics-scientific-disappointment.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:46:05 EDT news668940361 The Higgs boson is the most intriguing and unusual object yet discovered by fundamental science. There is no higher experimental priority for particle physics than building an electron–positron collider to produce it copiously and study it precisely. /news/2025-06-klystron-technology-future-energy-efficient.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:33:51 EDT news668921622 The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. 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Conventional methods for manipulating the speed of light, such as techniques leveraging so-called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effects, work by utilizing quantum interference effects in a medium, which can make it transparent to light beams and slow the speed of light through it. /news/2025-06-nonreciprocal-cavity-magnonics-device.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:48:02 EDT news668424797 Using advanced computational modeling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in partnership with the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon, has achieved the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of how intense laser beams alter the "quantum vacuum"—a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts is full of virtual electron-positron pairs. /news/2025-06-physicists-recreate-extreme-quantum-vacuum.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:02:03 EDT news668325721 Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. 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To detect them, researchers need to add gravitational wave detectors and neutrino telescopes to ordinary telescopes that capture light. /news/2025-06-supercomputer-simulation-reveals-merging-neutron.html Astronomy Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:02:03 EDT news668095321 Very soon after the Big Bang, the universe enjoyed a brief phase where quarks and gluons roamed freely, not yet joined up into hadrons such as protons, neutrons and mesons. This state, called a quark-gluon plasma, existed for a brief time until the temperature dropped to about 20 trillion Kelvin, after which this "hadronization" took place. /news/2025-05-thermodynamic-properties-quark-gluon-plasma.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Plasma Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 30 May 2025 10:00:03 EDT news667816855 A research team has reported the successful synthesis of high-purity, tunable nitrogen (N)-substituted MAX precursors and the resultant MXene two-dimensional (2D) materials—a first in the world. /news/2025-05-mxene-exceptional-high-frequency-emi.html Nanomaterials Fri, 30 May 2025 08:44:03 EDT news667813441 Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin, which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The paper is published in the journal Science. /news/2025-05-electrons-lithium-tin-factor-billion.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 29 May 2025 14:00:12 EDT news667649881 An international team of astronomers has discovered 25 new quasars by analyzing multiwavelength data from various surveys. All the newfound quasars were detected at redshifts greater than 4.6. The findings are detailed in a research paper published May 21 on the arXiv pre-print server. /news/2025-05-dozens-high-redshift-quasars-astronomers.html Astronomy Wed, 28 May 2025 08:00:04 EDT news667627398 Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero at extremely low temperatures. Superconductors, materials that exhibit this property, have proved to be highly promising for the development of various electronic components for both classical and quantum technologies. /news/2025-05-superconducting-diode-bridge-efficiently-ac.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 28 May 2025 06:30:02 EDT news667557618 Hyperspectral imaging (HSI), or imaging spectroscopy, captures detailed information across the electromagnetic spectrum by acquiring a spectrum for each pixel in an image. This enables precise identification of materials through their spectral signatures. /news/2025-05-bimodal-video-imaging-platform-hyperspectral.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 23 May 2025 13:00:04 EDT news667223182